YORK Minster authorities have not wasted any time. Only weeks after introducing the hotly disputed entrance charge, they have embarked on a cut-price promotion with a supermarket. This is a cheap deal in every sense. Shoppers spending more than £30 at
NOTHING is quite as it seems in Ryedale. The glorious excesses of Brideshead really belong to Castle Howard. The Hogwart's Express was a Pickering steam train. And now Scarborough is celebrating Christmas 12 weeks early. But then, this is not North Yorkshire
Grand Passion can triumph in the Tote Cambridgeshire Handicap at Newmarket tomorrow. The three-year-old, trained by Geoff Wragg, will be ridden by in-form jockey Darryll Holland in this thrilling 35-strong cavalry charge over a straight nine furlongs.
HOW can we stop young offenders getting away with one crime after another? When 14 or 15 year olds come before the courts they are too young to be named, or even to go to prison. But what the courts can do is to give these young offenders six months in
EMMA Clayton says she is not able to make jam, knit, arrange flowers or do any handicrafts (September 29). I feel sorry for her. She is missing out on things that very many women still enjoy. Creation of anything is very satisfying. Does she sing, play
AS co-ordinators of York Refugee Week, we feel it is important to respond to Marion Clarke's attack on the Evening Press' editorial deploring the BNP presence in York (September 29). It is a deliberate ploy of far-right groups such as the BNP, and the
YORK conceptual artist Simon Morris's new work has been attracting interest from high places and famous faces. Morris's The Royal Road To The Unconscious forms the inaugural exhibition at The Telephone Repeater Station, the new gallery space at Brompton-on-Swale
BRIAN Plummer, the London artist with the Yorkshire Dales studio, is holding an exhibition in the North for the first time in 15 years. Landscape Dissected, a solo show of acrylic painting on board-relief constructions, is on display at Adze Gallery,
WHEN it comes to recommending a car to a friend, then two vastly different models top the popularity stakes ... namely the £32,960-plus BMW X5 and the £10,050 Toyota Yaris Verso. This rather surprising decision is revealed by Which? The Consumer Magazine
TOYOTA has tugged the wraps off a whole batch of new models to reveal revised showroom models, as well as an unusual concept car hinting at the company's future European design intentions. Leading the way forward is the compact sports and speciality car
AFTER the grime and grind of Young Adam, Ewan McGregor is bedding women once more in Down With Love. This time the grubby fingernails and dead-fish eyes have made way for a sparkle on his teeth, a twinkle in the iris, and black dye in his groomed hair
FEARS that the Barbican Centre in York will no longer be the biggest conference venue in the city by next April were expressed by worried tourism bureau officials. Their concerns that the planned take-over of the Barbican by Newcastle-based Absolute Leisure
DON Weller is a national treasure and he will be appearing tonight at Wakefield Jazz with his electric octet, Relapse. His tenor saxophone has been heard with all sorts of different bands, from Alan Price to Gil Evans, and this band is a revival of an
FORMER Farsley Celtic manager Martin Haresign is the new boss of Harrogate Railway. Haresign's appointment was made last night and he is expected to be joined at Station View by ex-Farsley coach John Deacey. Leeds-based Haresign will take charge for tomorrow's
DISCIPLINARY problems could lead to high-flying Selby Town taking a tumble, manager Bob Lyon has warned ahead of their clash with Buxton on Saturday. The Robins have seen several players sent off in vital games in recent weeks. And although the ten-man
A BOOK called Punch Lines amused delegates at the Labour Party conference. It was a compilation of some of John Prescott's more memorable speeches. Apparently, he once said: "My position is that I want to make our position clear: the example of Germany
AN all inclusive talking shop has York City confident of a return to form and fortune at home to Cambridge United tomorrow. In the wake of Tuesday night's disappointing 2-0 defeat at Bury, manager Chris Brass called a summit meeting of all his players
YORK will be looking to sharpen up their act at Clifton Park tomorrow after two successive defeats on the road. They tackle Redcar in North East Two with Kiwi hooker John Sharp back in the squad. He proved popular with players and spectators alike last
AN anonymous resident has put up a reward of £100 for anyone who can help trace three grave ornaments stolen from York Cemetery. The 48-year-old man has put up the cash in return for any information that can lead to the recovery of the stone pieces which
THE opening of The Studio has brought about the opportunity for cultural diversity at York Theatre Royal. Next Friday and Saturday, Britain's only East Asian theatre company, Yellow Earth Theatre, will stage Lear's Daughters - see competition - and before
A HEROIN addict is today behind bars after she threw away a chance of the help she says she desperately needs. On Monday Coraleena Hunter, 24, was allowed to keep her freedom so drug professionals could assess her for a drug treatment and testing order
IN the second play of the inaugural season of theatre shows at the National Centre for Early Music, York, Jack Drum Arts presents Jim Woodland's Arch Enemies on Thursday. A murder mystery, ghost story, comedy and musical all in one new play, Arch Enemies
East meets West at York Theatre Royal when Yellow Earth Theatre presents Lear's Daughters in The Studio next Friday and Saturday at 7.45pm. Britain's only East Asian theatre company will be travelling up from its London base to York for the first time
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to boost the number of home carers in York. City of York Council is keen to highlight how important home carers are to the city. It hopes the new campaign, which will include artwork on the sides of the council's community
A NEW television channel has thrown satellite systems and videos across York into chaos. When viewers in the city switched on to their satellite or video channels yesterday, many were faced with a test transmission card for York TV. The card, which is
TWO mums terrified by the disappearance of their ten-year-old daughters were left furious at the police reaction to their plight. But York officers have defended their response to the alarm raised by the families. Marianna Finch, 33, of Cumbrian Avenue
A LONG-AWAITED bottling plant will be open next spring at a North Yorkshire brewery, it was announced today. The £20 million investment, to be built on waste ground within John Smiths, Tadcaster, is set to create 40 new jobs. The new plant will package
THE division one individual champion of the York Phoenix Open League is Woodman's Tony Raymond. With an awesome display of finishing, Raymond closed the first leg with a 102 finish for 21, then took the decider with a 108 finish for 18 darts after Daz
THE York and District Table Tennis Association has started the new season with a list of rule changes. Matches will now be played up to 11 instead of 21, with the winners decided on a best of five games basis. Each player is also only allowed to serve
SEASONED York City Knights star Mick Ramsden has signed a new contract with the club to take him into a 13th year at professional level. The Knights have also agreed a deal for next term with Australian centre Mark Stewart, who impressed at the end of
THIS book tells in their own words what the people who were involved thought about the bloody conflict which erupted because Charles I wouldn't listen to them. The author sets the scene in chronological order of events before letting the participants
A YORK secondary school could be demolished to make way for a 1,200-pupil "super school", it was claimed today. Education chiefs at City of York Council are reviewing the provision of education in the west of the city. According to a newsletter distributed
WITH reference to housing versus the green belt, when have City of York Council listened to what its citizens have to say? It pays lip service to democracy by saying that consultations will take place, but only go through the motions of listening and
Folk singer June Tabor tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON why she is so taken with the power of the word. JUNE Tabor has always had a thing for balladry. Now this refined, dark and warm interpreter of traditional and contemporary song has made an album comprised
THE Deep Blues Club welcomes the return of Delta blues harmonica ace Blind Mississippi Morris for a fourth appearance in York on Tuesday (7th). Clarksdale, Mississippi, has a population of fewer than 20,000 people, yet this small community has produced
Hayley Hutchinson and Special Guests play in the intimate atmosphere of the Basement Bar of City Screen, York, on October 4th. The York singer and songwriter has been playing gigs since she was 14 and has worked with musicians such as Stuart Fletcher,
IS the world of The Shed taking a turn for the even weirder this autumn? As evidence, m'lud, I present bhangra and bingo, fish and chip van deliveries and mechanical hats, and instruments made of a nine-foot single string or sheep bells and ice. Shed
COULD Travis play Fibbers in York next March? Or maybe David Gray, Elbow, The Charlatans, Ash, The Polyphonic Spree, Gabrielle, Big Brovaz, Floetry or Badly Drawn Boy. As part of the Barfly chain, the York music bar is participating in Passport, a project
- THE ironically named Fragile savour the cosmic music of Yes, the longest lasting of the Seventies' progressive rock bands, at Fibbers tonight. "Our purpose is not only to pay tribute but also to promote continuing interest in this legendary classic
THE Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain marks the start of the second week of events at the new Selby Arts Centre on Thursday (9th). The autumn season began with last Saturday's stand-up show by BBC Radio 4 comedian Mark Steel, and throughout October,
ANDY Cygan scored twice as Hounds came from behind to beat Pocklington 3-1 in the York FA Sunday Senior Cup. Pocklington took the lead after 20 minutes when Charlie Bond chipped the Hounds goalkeeper. Some 15 minutes into the second half, Hounds drew
Two goals in as many second half minutes earned York Rovers a 2-0 win at Tadcaster Magnets in the York FA Senior Minor Cup. It looked as though Rovers were going to pay dearly for missing a first-half penalty, but Mark Masheder's 67th-minute close-range
York FA Sunday Junior Cup holders Yorkshire Herald crashed out at the first hurdle of this year's competition. They were beaten 2-1 by Selby Olympia WMC Reserves with all the goals coming in the second half. Olympia went ahead when Chris Pearson turned
EVERY Ryedale district councillor will have a say on the proposed investigation of possible cancer clusters around RAF Fylingdales. Members of the council's community services and licensing committee last night agreed that all its councillors should examine
READY, steady, go... Malton and Norton Amateur Operatic Society's autumn production is in the starting blocks after four months of rehearsals. Directed by Sheffield producer Lee Hammonds and York musical director John Parkes, Cole Porter's Anything Goes
YORKSHIRE Air Museum bosses are still waiting with fingers crossed for news of whether they have won their bid for Concorde. The museum, at Elvington, near York, was one of 12 sites around the world shortlisted earlier this year as possible homes for
YORK Minster has been blasted as too commercial after joining with a supermarket to offer cheap tickets. A York Synod member has slammed the decision to offer cut-price admission to the historic centre of worship by Morrison's Supermarket. "This is taking
EVERY Ryedale district councillor will have a say on the proposed investigation of possible cancer clusters around RAF Fylingdales. Members of the council's community services and licensing committee last night agreed that all its councillors should examine
THE future of a York cinema could be in doubt after city councillors moved to protect part of its historic frontage. The decision to preserve the Blossom Street Odeon's unique rounded signs was made despite verbal threats that the cinema's bosses could
VACCINES for cancer, malaria and HIV will be the focus of research at five new potentially world-beating research centres in York. More than £12.5 million is being ploughed into the centres at the University of York's Heslington campus, which will employ
A YORK secondary school could be demolished to make way for a 1,200-pupil "super school", it was claimed today. Education chiefs at City of York Council are reviewing the provision of education in the west of the city. According to a newsletter distributed
THESE shattered fragments are all that remain of a York wheelie bin after it was blown up by a monster firework. Students Gemma Whittaker and Paul Donovan returned to their home in Tang Hall to find shards of plastic and even wheels had been sent flying
AN all inclusive talking shop has York City confident of a return to form and fortune at home to Cambridge United tomorrow. In the wake of Tuesday night's disappointing 2-0 defeat at Bury, manager Chris Brass called a summit meeting of all his players
CHRIS TITLEY is reunited with an old friend as he and his son JACK check out the latest children's book releases. NOW this is what fatherhood should be all about. I have endured thousands of miles of car journeys listening to the Tweenies' Party Time
SEASONED York City Knights star Mick Ramsden has signed a new contract with the club to take him into a 13th year at professional level. The Knights have also agreed a deal for next term with Australian centre Mark Stewart, who impressed at the end of
Are we a nation of drunkards? STEPHEN LEWIS asks York GP Sarah Bottom to assess the drinking habits of three people. THE Radio 5 Live team who compared York to Faliraki weren't very flattering. But anybody who's been anywhere near the Micklegate Run on
